Wilhelm Jastrow

Wilhelm, called Willi, was born on March 16, 1897 in Stettin. His parents were the Jewish tailor Julius Jonas Jastrow (born 1860) and the kindergarten teacher Ernestine, born Spandau (1861). 
Willi had four siblings:

• Arno (born 1890), who died in the year of his birth
• Alice (born 1891), married Max Krisch in 1920
• Trude (born 1892) married Paul Sperling in 1934, who died in 1937.
• Käthe (born 1895), married to Willy Basta. Their daughter Gertrud was born in 1926.

Wilhelm Jastrow was a businessman and salesman. On May 26, 1928 , at the age of 31, he married his cousin Amalie Anni Spandau, who was born on January 3, 1898, in the Kreuzberg registry office. The marriage certificate shows her occupation as a secretary. The witnesses were Paul Spandau, the bride's father, and his brother-in-law Willy Basta. In 1931/32, Anni and Wilhelm Jastrow were registered in the Jewish address book at Luisenufer 32 (today Legiendamm ), where Anni's family lived. 
From 1936, "Willi Jastrow , salesman" can be found at Kaiser -Wilhelm Str.19 in Tempelhof/Schöneberg. Unfortunately, the stumbling blocks for Anni and Wilhelm Jastrow were mistakenly laid by the Schöneberg Initiative in the street of the same name in Lankwitz and not in Tempelhof , where all documents show that the couple's apartment was located.

After Hitler and the National Socialists came to power in 1933, life for the Jewish population deteriorated drastically. Exclusion, harassment, hatred and anti-Jewish laws dominated life. 
Wilhelm Jastrow was arrested during the mass arrests of the " Operation Work-Shy Reich " on June 14, 1938 and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp . These mass arrests of the "Operation Work-Shy Reich" in the spring and summer of 1938 were new to the Nazi persecution policy in their systematic and nationwide form. They were directed against people whom the police and the employment and welfare offices accused of refusing jobs and not wanting to work. Even minor previous convictions were enough to attract the attention of the criminal police. On this basis, thousands of Jews were deported to concentration camps for forced labor in June 1938. 
Wilhelm Jastrow was released from Buchenwald on August 4, 1938. 
Willi and Anni Jastrow fled to Brazil in October 1938 and reached Chile via Uruguay. In 1939, their German citizenship was revoked.

Wilhelm Jastrow died on September 11, 1977 in his new homeland of Chile. His wife Anni Jastrow died on September 9, 1989.

Wilhelm's sister Käthe married Willy Basta in 1926. The couple moved to Attilastrstr. 114 and had a daughter, Gertrud Rosalie Ulrike, who was later called 
Shoshana , in the same year. In 1934 the family emigrated to Palestine. Stolpersteine were laid for Willy, Käthe and Gertrud Basta at Attilastrstr . 114.

Wilhelm Jastrow’s mother Ernestine and his sisters Alice and Trude could not escape from Germany and were murdered in the Holocaust :

• Mother Ernestine Jastrow , née Spandau, lived with her daughter Alice at Maybachufer 46 in Neukölln in 1939. 
  On August 17, 1942, the 81-year-old was deported to Theresienstadt, where she died a few days later on September 3, 1942. In the transport list, her address was recorded as Urbanstr. 71 at Marcus's.
• Alice married Max Krisch in 1920. In 1939 she lived at Maybachufer 46 in Neukölln. On January 12, 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered. In the list for the 26th transport to the East, her address was recorded as Urbanstr. 71.
• The widowed Trude was deported to Riga and murdered on November 27, 1941.